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lotusalley

@lotusalley.bsky.social

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wish to be a channel for hope … 🖤 write glitch pop songs, keys and vox, more a poet maybe… draw and watercolor paint scenes and creatures from my ongoing novel… practice anti-perfectionism …

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lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 1d

no kings no troops in our cities

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 1d

the musician warns of bombs to houses in South Carolina

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 3d

Torture of detainees kidnapped with no due process can’t be ignored

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 4d

democracy is threatened and I still can’t just put the rug into the dryer within the appropriate time… lol

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Michele @m1chelel.bsky.social · 4d

Words matter in a a genocide

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lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 6d

an activist was shottodeath by ice, terror is manufactured now

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 8d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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NPR @npr.org · 10d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 12d

strange fruit

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 13d

America is broken treaty after broken treaty, that is truth, imprisonment

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 15d

hundreds of detainees lost from alligator Alcatraz! where are they?!

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 16d

serenading the city as it defies fascism

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 20d

the musician plays songs of protest as we debate when to go underground

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lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 20d

made to drink water from the floor, that is inhumane, pure cruelty

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 21d

who is next to boycott after cancelling free speech!?!

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 23d

when books burn we must all become the powerful story-keepers

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 24d

the fall of the empire is upon us… crushing us with bombed out federal buildings and starvation from the department of war

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 24d

Death hanging from a tree… it was not suicide.

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lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 24d

I like your optimism that there will be people taking history tests in the future …

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24d

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

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lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 24d

the government has become a worse monster, we must keep hope

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 26d

the cities are turning into prisons from government violence

lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 27d

songs of incarceration; in the cages they are carrying

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Jennifer Shin @jennifershin.bsky.social · 28d

Every state should do this. I live in Alabama, where I can own a gun and carry it without a permit. If an unidentified man wearing a mask accosts me, he stands a good chance of being shot.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29d

If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear…

📌 California lawmakers just passed SB 627, the “No Secret Police Act,” which would make it illegal for law enforcement to hide their identities while on duty in the state.

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lotusalley @lotusalley.bsky.social · 28d

I think it’s Americana cosplay… no actual love for the constitution or kindness of Jesus vibe … it’s pretend… the only religious thing they’re doing is worshiping the golden calf, they have manifested their own cruel system that is neither Christ like nor American icon, he is the anti literally

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